The one pleasure that never palls is the pleasure of not going to church.

The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.

pretense is the oil that lubricates society.

my family, although it keeps its hair, turns gray early - a business asset but a social handicap.

Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.

Politics is still the man's game. The women are allowed to do the chores, the dirty work, and now and then--but only occasionally--one is present at some secret conference or other. But it's not the rule. They can go out and get the vote, if they can and will; they can collect money, they can be grateful for being permitted to work. But that is all.

because we are always staring at the stars, we learn the shortness of our arms.